An Arizona Adventure – Caving Dum Ditty
An Arizona Adventure: For anyone who is familiar with electronics there is a guy named Don Lancaster who wrote "The TTL Cookbook". He preceded me working at Goodyear Aerospace too. Anyway he discovered a cave up on the rim which got named "Dum Ditty". It was one of the throw away caves they use in case you're a real tool that likes to go into caves and spray paint your name. Anyway I go to Az Cave Club and hook up. We go to this cave and go in the relatively roomy entrance and there in front of me is a big boulder with a teeny tiny opening at its base. My partner says that's the way. I'm like "waaaaaaa ??? seriously???" He replies "yes". I screw myself up and manage to do the crawl. Now you may or may not know you MUST wear a helmet caving. Otherwise you're going to knock the fuck out of your head. So my improvised unit was a construction helmet I found by the highway. If you pay attention while driving any highway you'll eventually start noticing there are construction helmets to be fairly readily found. So I had mounted a strap. Long story short only way to get through this hole was take off the helmet because IT WAS TOO WIDE to go through with that orientation. I had to do the turn your head and cough position to get through. I could then put my helmet back on and continue. Time after time in that cave – helmet off – turn your head and cough – slither – helmet back on. Looking back I wonder why I'm not still stuck in that cave.
When we finished up with that cave we went to one near by that was supposedly used as a speak easy during prohibition. It had a large antechamber. But someone had taken a crap somewhere and you've never smelt it like "someone shat in a cave" and it lays festering for years. I was out of there withing minutes.
Set Up WireGuard on Ubuntu Linux
Summary of Successful Path – path through the maze
- wireguard – wireguard comes with Ubuntu installs already
- Install resolvconf: sudo apt install resolvconf
- Installing the WireGuard Client App on Ubuntu – First install did not require. Second install did this.
- Use Mulivad VPN site to generate a configuration ( .conf ) file
- Place config file in /etc/wireguard You will have to create /wireguard
- File must have the .conf extension: VpnFile.conf
- Server is taken care of by the fact I'm using Mulivad
- Use command wg-quick up VpnFile ( note: no .conf extension here! )
- Test with WhatIsMyIP shows IP located in Chicago
Where to go next
Process Notes – the maze I started with
- resolvconf – was not installed. Errored out before Wireguard could run
- At first IIRC – I got an error when I tried to use FullFileName.conf ( with extension – ( still do )
- CONF file does not work without the .conf extention
- Works: wg-quick up wg0
- Does not work: wg-quick up wg0.conf
- IIRC: Part of the problem is that I was trying to test with my home wireguard server that now appears to be down
Research Links
- WireGuard.com: Wireguard overview
- Introduction to WireGuard VPN
- WireGuard Installation
- How to Set Up a WireGuard Client on Linux with .conf File
- How To Set Up WireGuard on Ubuntu 20.04 – Only used the first part for install of wireguard since I am using Mulivad. This takes the server issue out of the problem
- How to Set Up WireGuard VPN Client on Ubuntu Desktop – Only used the first part for install of wireguard since I am using Mulivad. This takes the server issue out of the problem
- Mulivad: WireGuard configuration file generator – Used this to generate the .conf file. Store off with .conf extension. You call without extension but the file must not have.
- Install wireguard-gui on Ubuntu – installed and got errors – delay till later
- What Is My IP – test to see if IP address of machine has changed to relevant IP address.
Theory
Other Links
- Connect to a VPN – covers the network interface you can click to from desktop network icon
- Install NetworkManager
- How to configure WireGuard VPN client with NetworkManager GUI –
- Can't add WireGuard VPN connection to Ubuntu Network Manager
While watching this video I realized that while the configuration file must have the .conf extension you call refer to this file without the extension and I had been trying to test with my home server which had gotten jammed up and needs rebooting.
Mount Ord Camping Trip and the Big Snow Storm
There was a big snow storm that came through and a friend and I had jeeped to the top of Mount Ord. We were all set up and trying to sleep when the snow came. Banked up beside the sleeping bags cause I hardly ever used a tent in Az due to no bugs and little rain. So my buddy is looking and saying "There are signs of failure everywhere!". A line which still elicits laughs all these years later. So I am finally convinced and buddy is taking his time getting out of his bag and I'm all ready to leave so I coof coof coof some snow onto his head. He whines naturally and gets pissed off but not too bad cause he knows and I know he's a slow mover. So we start down the mountain and see some other campers but we got out just in time. Next day on the news we see there are several groups of people that got trapped up there in the snow. One group had a big dog and they made it sleep outside their truck as they sheltered which was nutty as we 've all heard the band named "3 dog night". The dog will keep you warm.
